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Esther Brownsmith, PhD
@brownsmith.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Religion at the University of Dayton. Studying dead languages and living ideas. Interested in Hebrew Bible, gender, fanfic theory, and accessible, liberatory pedagogy. She/her.
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But also, I see it as a both/and. We can and should read the slaughter in the book of Esther in the light of the horrors in Gaza. AND we also need to recognize that the book of Esther has historically provided hope and joy and resistance to a marginalized community.
To deny that both of these can coexist is to conflate the Israeli government with the Jewish people, which is its own flavor of antisemitism.
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Esther Brownsmith, PhD
@brownsmith.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Religion at the University of Dayton. Studying dead languages and living ideas. Interested in Hebrew Bible, gender, fanfic theory, and accessible, liberatory pedagogy. She/her.
397 followers201 following186 posts